Luke 10:21-24
Jesus rejoiced
in the Holy Spirit saying, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned,
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. . . . No one knows who
the Son is except the Father and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone
to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
This Advent
season our hearts are tuned in to a longing for deeper awareness of God’s
presence, a deeper alignment of our way with God’s way. We turn to reading more
and doing more in the name of God to direct this deep-down thirst to see God
and the things of God more clearly. And
yet, Jesus praises the simple of heart, not those who try too hard to be
perfect. Perhaps the answer is to be
found in what the childlike fix their hearts upon. Maybe it is their childlike
simplicity and their lack of self-absorption that allows them to capture the
heart of Christ in such an endearing way.
Instead of concern about doing it “right” or being perfect, they simply
recognize that God is the source of their longing and joy. Their desires, their thoughts, all their
choices are focused upon God.
In the First Draft toward the Constitutions of the
Sisters of Christian Charity, Mother Pauline sheds light on this mystery:
“We and all creatures have our being at every moment in the eternal being of
God by His love and power, by his infinite love and mercy” (p. 4-5).
Resting in the
words of Jesus quoted above, what is God inviting me to let go of today? How might God be inviting me to cherish more
deeply His loving gaze upon my heart?
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